Well, decent game, fair result, against one of the favourites for promotion. 1st half we were the better side, went a goal up (Davies shooting THROUGH the keeper), coulda had 2 penalties for handball (the 1st was a cross flicked on by a Blackpool hand, the 2nd, the guy 'saved' a header, with his hand outstretched). I can only presume the ref and linesman didn't see them, cos neither were 'ball to hand' or whatever phrase they use these days to claim it's not handball. Furthermore, the ref was problies a little unlucky in another decision, where he gave us a free kick just as Davies broke clean through. If he'd not been so quick on the whistle we'd have been looking at 2-0 up.
Having said that, the 2nd half was dominated by the Tangerines and we did well to hold out.
Difficult this week, but I'll go with:
*** Mellis. Cool, calm and calculating and gets us playing football.
** Davies. Led the line well and scored - again.
* Alnwick. I like Alnwick. He looks like a keeper who's gonna make something happen. Whether trying to catch a ball, kick it or save it, he always looks like there's mistake around the corner. Keeps it interesting, see. On Satdy, he came out for a cross and got nowhere near it, he kicked it along the floor a couple of times when trying to kick it long, but, crucially, he made some decent saves. In particular, he saved a late one-on-one after Stones was caught in possession in their half attempting to take on his 3rd or 4th man. Phew!
Sponsors MOTM: Foster (to guffaws around me). Foster and Wiseman problies had decent games overall, but we lost possession playing 'simple' balls 3 or 4 times in our own half. We cannot afford to do this. The '£2m rated' (I read) John Stones again looked awesome, but with a couple of silly errors. Like a better version of Ryan Shotton. Cwyka (?) again looked tidy and Dagnall was a handful throughout. Spot-on tictacs from Hill too, making the front 2 run their socks off before replacing them after 70 mins with Harewood and Done. Done looked a real threat on the break, tho Harewood was hapless.
Other despatches: A couple of things bugged me. First, too much sideways and backwards passing. There was a time in the 2nd half when Golbourne had 40 yards to run into with the ball (with men up to cross it to) and he stood, looked up, stroked his chin, thought better of it and turned back inside to knock the ball back to the centre half. And we've also gone back to that old habit of knocking the ball up to a dwarf's (Dagnall) head. Same last home game. If you're gonna aim for anyone's head, shouldn't it be DAVIES???
drink du jour: JD and coke. And you shoulda seen the grump on Gerry got when we told him he couldn't have any. (We relented in the end).
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